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• Architecture: 1850s-1890s

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• Architecture: 1900s-1940s

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• Architecture: 1950s-2000s

  1950sSoon after moving into the White House in 1945, President Truman noticed large areas of cracking in the plaster throughout the...

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  When David Baillie Warden remarked in 1816 that “it was originally proposed to form a communication between the [executive departmental] offices an...

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